10 Apr Important Statistics on Slip and Fall Injuries
Slip and fall injuries are likely more dangerous and more common than you think. In the workplace, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found that 15% of all injuries are related to a slip and fall. This isn’t too surprising. More than 17,000 people will lose their lives every year because of a slip and fall injury. This shocking number could be avoided if some premise owners were more careful about the situations that they set up simply because of the way that they maintain the premises for which they are responsible.
Where Do They Occur
As is already stated by the statistics, slip and fall injuries are particularly prevalent in people’s workplaces. This can happen for a multitude of different reasons.
Quite commonly, workplaces aren’t cleaned up quickly enough when they are filled with hazards and those hazards may end up being the cause of somebody taking a bad fall. For example, in a warehouse, pallets may be left on the floor, items may fall from storage and present a trip hazard and so forth.
Commercial spaces are also very common places where people have bad slip and fall accidents. In commercial spaces, the fact that the flooring tends to be very hard and slick when wet both conspire to make these dangerous places to be if a property owner happens to be negligent. A wet floor that is not flagged, inventory left in aisles were people are shopping and other hazards can lead to very serious falls.
Many slip and fall injuries happen in the victim’s own home. This is particularly true for older individuals. An extension cord left lying across a carpet, a piece of furniture with a leg that sticks out just far enough to present a trip hazard and other sometimes unseen dangers lurk in even the tidiest and most organized of homes.
Liability
In some cases, people are so grievously injured – or even killed – in slip and fall injuries that they or their families decide to take someone they believe responsible for that injury to court. A slip and fall attorney can help to establish whether or not negligence was a factor in the person who was injured taking a fall. If it turns out that negligence was the reason that the person was injured, a jury may decide to provide compensation for the family of someone who died in such an incident or for the person themselves, if they are lucky enough to escape with only injuries.
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